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Part 1: “The Regime of Quotas and Papers”

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Part 2: “Migrants at the Margins of Law and Nation”

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Part 3: “War, Nationalism, and Alien Citizenship”

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Part 4: “Pluralism and Nationalism in Post-World War II Immigration Reform”

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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

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